Saturday, December 17, 2011

by Richard A. Gardner. M.D.






Diagnoses Applicable to Both Alienating Parents and PAS Children
297.3 Shared Psychotic Disorder
V61.20 Parent-Child Relational Problem

Diagnoses Applicable to Alienating Parents
297.71 Delusional Disorder
301.0 Paranoid Personality Disorder
301.83 Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
301.81 Narcissistic Personality Disorder

DSM-IV Diagnoses Applicable to PAS Children
312.8 Conduct Disorder
309.21 Separation Anxiety Disorder
300.15 Dissociative Disorder
Adjustment Disorders

313.9 Disorder of Infancy, Childhood or Adolescence Not Otherwise Specified
This category is a residual category for disorders with onset in infancy, childhood, or adolescence that do not meet criteria for any specific order in the Classification.
This would be a “last resort” diagnosis for the PAS child, the child who, although suffering with a PAS, does not have symptoms that warrant other DSM-IV childhood diagnoses.
http://www.tsblog.org/


Does DSM-IV Have Equivalents for the Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) Diagnosis?

by Richard A. Gardner. M.D.
Department of Child Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University, New York, New York, USA








No comments:

Post a Comment